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Save Our Community was founded in the movement to resist Wal-Mart's development in Rosemead, California. Now, it has become a general site for news, information, gossip, talk, and blogging about Rosemead. We also have stories about South San Gabriel, San Gabriel, Montebello, and occasionally about Pico Rivera, El Monte, South El Monte, Alhambra, Temple City, and other nearby communities. Your host is Todd. If you want a blog just sign up, get approved, and start writing. Good posts will be moved onto the home page.

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Watch Out for the Lawyers

Recently, there was a change of attorneys in Rosemead. The contracting of attorneys is a potentially political hot potato, and there was some controversy surrounding it. Basically, the high price that attorneys command make the city attorney contract extremely lucrative, so law firms donate to city council candidates in the hopes of getting new contracts.

This also seems to have happened in other cities, and it's been reported in the LA Weekly and other papers.

(The other big budget item that's subject to extreme corruption seems to be tow-truck contracts. Do a search for "Maywood" and "Tony Bravo" to see what I mean. These tow-truck guys not only get paid, they exercise a lot of power to abuse the public.)